The change of seasons is a necessary part of ecosystem regulation. With the buzzing activities of humans and insects alike, winter gives us a chance to encourage a natural rhythm. As the first signs ...

As the vibrant colors of summer and autumn fade from our gardens, it’s easy to assume that all outdoor life has gone dormant. But on milder winter days, you might be surprised to see a fuzzy bumblebee ...

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

Insects use different mechanisms to survive the winter. Some species, such as praying mantis, spend the winter as eggs, then hatch in the spring. Others, like woolly bear caterpillars, go into a ...

Autumn gardens play a key role in helping bees survive winter. With nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States supporting pollination in farms, cities and natural spaces, reliable forage in ...

SOUTH JORDAN — After a massive fire destroyed a honey factory and left an American Fork beekeeper without a home for his bees, a local expert shared insight about how to care for bees during the ...

During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...